On the first day of the Chang Gui Instance, Qi Si opened his eyes in a bamboo forest shrouded by night. In a mirror-like flash before him, he saw himself clad in red, with long hair and a lantern in hand.
Beneath the Identity Card in the upper right corner of his vision, a small card depicting a blood-robed skeleton silently solidified against a purplish-black background, dark and eerie.
[Your Identity: Chang Gui] [Identity Effects: ① When you are alone in a room with one person and are no more than three meters apart, you may choose to kill them; ② Anywhere, you may kill someone by directly touching their shoulder; ③ You must kill one person every day. Otherwise, your soul will scatter and vanish into nothingness; ④ If you mistakenly kill a 'Chang Gui,' you will be erased by the Mountain God.]
Chang Gui was plainly Qi Si's identity in this Instance—or rather, his faction.
As an [Undying One] walking through the game, being assigned to the ghost faction by the Instance was, in a sense, perfectly reasonable.
Bamboo forests were full of bewildering barriers. Wandering ghosts could easily lose their way within them, circling around and lingering without ever leaving.
Qi Si simply found a clean spot to squat down and folded the [Director's Special Pass] into all sorts of shapes.
...Just playing around.
After waiting in boredom for half a minute, an earth-shaking howl suddenly rang out from the depths of the forest, shattering the mist winding between the bamboo.
A path paved with white stones emerged before him, winding forward.
Qi Si put away the Cursed Pendulum, carried his paper lantern, and leisurely followed the path for a while until he reached the archway outside Poplar Blossom Town.
A person in a yellow